All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you,' and after that I will go out." Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

This is how you are to eat it -- dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.

When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."

Not fearing

The man replied, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, thinking, "Surely what I did has become known."

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the Lord,

Endured

And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job's endurance and you have seen the Lord's purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Seeing

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

I constantly trust in the Lord; because he is at my right hand, I will not be upended.

For David says about him, 'I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

General references

"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.